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Jan Nelson was born on 1955 in Australia, is an Australian artist, photographer (born 1955). Discover Jan Nelson's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

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1955

Jan Nelson (born 1955) is an Australian artist who works in sculpture, photography and painting.

She is best known for her hyper real images of adolescents.

She has exhibited widely in Australia as well as Paris and Brazil.

Her works are in the collections of Australian galleries, including the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney and the Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane, as well as major regional galleries.

She represented Australia in the XXV biennale in São Paulo, Brazil.

Nelson was born in Melbourne in 1955 and attended the Victorian College of the Arts, graduating in 1983.

1960

The series culminating in the exhibition Incident 1960, which examined issues of simulation and the relationship between painting, photography and 3D objects.

1970

Layered within the artist's work is the personal experience of her own formative years during the social, political and cultural tumult of the 1970s.

Nelson's multi-disciplinary practice, which encompasses painting, sculpture, photography and installation, concentrates on the role of the visual in the construction and experience of the developing self.

Both alluring and disquieting, her work's dynamism stems from the artist's preoccupation with states of change.

Nelson's suggested narratives frequently involve pivotal moments, transformations and the in-between spaces in which the potential for change and transcendence operate.

1980

As a painter, Nelson originally explored landscape and in the 1980s focused on politics of occupations and space.

Nelson produced drawings in crayon.

After the mid-1980s, Nelson focused on ideas about woman's place in society, and the invisibility of women in society.

Her works incorporated traditional crafts including plaster work and basket weaving.

1989

In 1989–91 Nelson produced a series of works called The Long Century.

1990

For instance, in the 1990s her paintings (Anticipating Transcendence,1996 and An Ordinary Life, 1997) explored iconic tropes of modernism by refiguring the work of Yves Klein and Piero Manzoni.

1994

In 1994, Nelson exhibited sculptures recalling the grand canyon and the Amazon jungle: simple shapes on plinths.

Even then critics noted her theatricality and comment on the traditional presenting of works on plinths.

Nelson's more recent works are hyper realistic, and recall the gloss of advertising and magazine.

Her works portray people between their worlds and their desires, often adolescents.

2000

In her work International Behaviour (2000) she imposed a photograph of Vietnam refuges in boats on a background of vivid, psychedelic colours and patterns.

In the early 2000s Nelson began her hyperrealist, hyper coloured painting series, Walking in Tall Grass.

As MCA senior curator Rachel Kent writes: 'Nelson's paintings are unapologetically representational, their subjects painted meticulously from photographs taken by the artist, rather than from studio sittings.

Collectively titled Walking in Tall Grass, her works take as their subject a young person – male or female – on the cusp of adolescence.

Highly individual, with distinctive features, clothing and other pieces of visual information (a pom-pom hat, badges, a particular anorak), they are one step removed from their viewer in that they are discretely turned away and do not meet the eye directly.

This 'disconnect' or refusal to engage has been described by some critics as reflecting the nature of adolescence, with its solitary introspection and avoidance of adult engagement.

Each portrait is singular, the figure presented against a simple, coloured background.' 'Increasingly, they are a composite of several people who are digitally combined, the head of one, the torso or arms of another, and so forth….

This subsequent step then becomes an exercise in going beyond the truth of the photograph, introducing a hyper-reality and powerful intensity of colour and emotion so that, in Nelson's words, the painting "begins to vibrate".

2016

Nelson's best known series is Walking in Tall Grass, portraits of adolescents, that Nelson worked on for fifteen years, ending in 2016.

Nelson began with photographing people she knew as well as strangers.

She drew on the photographs for the paintings, which may combine a head, a torso and features from multiple subjects she has photographed.

When she paints the portraits, Nelson adds vibrant colours and often paints reflections in eyes or sunglasses.

To heighten vibrancy, Nelson has painted exhibition walls in vibrant colours.

Each young adolescent is dressed and accessorized to express individuality as well as fashion at the time the painting was done.

Yet each individual looks away from the viewer, suggesting they are looking inward uncertain of where they are going.

In an interview, Nelson noted that when walking in tall grass you can't go back, you have to go forward, but you can't see where you are going.

Jan Nelson's works exploit emotional, textural and chromatic intensity, oscillating between fear and power, complacency and dissent.

2018

In 2018 she completed a PhD at Deakin University, Faculty of Arts & Education, School of Communication and Creative Arts, Melbourne.

Her thesis, titled Lasagna composting: strategies for painting in a digital age proposed strategies for the survival of painting in a digital age.